The Search for Waltâs Warning
When you think of AMCâs hit show Breaking Bad, âvideo gameâ is not the first thing that comes to mind. In order to promote the showâs second season, a game was planned and released for the Adobe Flash Player in 2009. Called âWaltâs Warning,â shots were recorded in the studio and taken in the perspective of a player. The shots would then be edited to correspond with player actions. The game was short, consisting of a few scenarios with the character Walter White (Bryan Cranston) encountering the player in the desert. After knocking the player out, White would take the player into an RV. The player would wake up and be able to move the screen around as White talked to them. Depending on how long the player looked in a certain directionâat a gun or chemicals, each on either side of the RVâWhite would attack the player with the items the player looked at. Bryan Cranston apparently recorded thousands of lines for specific names, like Michael or Jason.
Around 2020, Adobe had made the decision to discontinue Flash. In the rush to preserve the countless Flash games made over the years, many were not able to be preserved properlyâif at all. Good efforts were made by preservationists, but there were drastically more Flash games made than people that were able to preserve them.
So because we know so much about the game, does that mean it was found? The answer is, well, partially. According to the Lost Media Wiki, footage of the game has been found and an Adobe Flash file of the game was foundâbut that file contained only a part of the game. The file containing the full game has yet to be found.
The search for âWaltâs Warningâ continues. If you would like to see the behind the scenes of the gameâs production, click here! If you would like to see an overview of the game with footage included, click to see YouTuber Stranceâs video on it here. For more information about the search, please check out the Lost Media Wikiâs page about the game here.